Inspiration

This feature has been created in collaboration with urbanNext, a multi-platform aimed at developing, disseminating and distributing content centered on architecture through a focus on the contemporary human milieu and its challenges. Architizer features a weekly discussion from urbanNext’s journals to support its investigation of urban conditions and innovations facing the architectural profession today. “The…

According to new data released by NCARB (the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards), the architectural profession is “healthy and growing.” The organization’s annual study of U.S. architects shows that the number of people studying, practicing and securing licensure in 2015 all increased, reflecting the robust state of the construction industry following years of fragility…

Somehow, they survived without succumbing to cabin fever — or should that be ‘dome fever’? Six stoic individuals — including one architect — have finally emerged from a small dome upon the volcanic surface of Hawaii, having spent 12 months inside the geodesic structure in order to simulate conditions that astronauts would face on a…

There is much discussion these days about the need for architects to attend to the needs of their en vironment rather than impose their personal visions from up on high à laHoward Roark. This is, of course, a mature, responsible position and one that most architects eventually come around to anyway. But still, the injunction that,…

It's possible to have the best of both rural and contemporary 21st-century agricultural facilities t hat hearken back to traditional agricultural typologies.

These projects are wholly different in terms of typology, material palette and construction techniqu e, yet they share a common bond: that between architecture and the ocean.

Curtains may not be a hot topic in architecture, but these tactile textiles do have the power to rad ically transform our perceptions of space.

Brown is perhaps the color most taken for granted in architecture; yet, its use is pervasive.

Last year, while I was reviewing the brilliant El Guadual Children’s Center in Villa Rica, Colombia, I discovered a theory in nursery design known as the “Reggio Emilia Approach,” a method for preschool design that was founded upon the belief that “the physical environment of an educational building is crucial to development during early childhood,…